Where does “quinine” come from?

quinine (French) comes from Spanish quina, from Latin quina, from Latin quini, from Latin quinque, from Proto-Italic kʷenkʷe, from Proto-Indo-European pénkʷe — five.

quinine (French): quinine

Definitions

  1. quinine

Ancestry of “quinine”, step by step

quinine traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Spanish quina

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishquinaquinine; toxic wine; double five
2Latinquinanominative neuter plural of quīnī; accusative...
3Latinquinifive each; five at a time
4Latinquinquefive; 5
5Proto-Italickʷenkʷefive
6Proto-Indo-Europeanpénkʷefive

via French quinquina

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchquinquinacinchona
2New Latincinchona—
3SpanishChinchóna town in Madrid, Spain

Words derived from “quinine”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European pénkʷe →